A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
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#2> Xfinity is the only gigabit provider in this area. No competition. No alternatives. I can’t leave. So they don’t have to care.
many such cases...
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#3This has to be the weirdest post I've seen in a while? Cable infrastructure in the US is awful. I can't imagine a scenario where it would be reliable.
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#4This has to be the weirdest post I've seen in a while? Cable infrastructure in the US is awful. I can't imagine a scenario where it would be reliable.
I don’t think it was the author’s intent to shock us by the state of CATV infrastructure.
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#5I’ve dealt with this at least twice on behalf of clients. In both cases, another provider entering the market was the only thing that made a difference. By that point, they’d already burned all the good will they had in the area, so maybe they would have fixed things with competition, but I wouldn’t know, my clients got on the waitlist to jump ship the absolute nanosecond they hear about it.
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#6Call your public service commission. Call your municipality. The fun thing about cable companies is that unlike telcos, their monopolies are almost always bounded by a contract.
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#7This has to be the weirdest post I've seen in a while? Cable infrastructure in the US is awful. I can't imagine a scenario where it would be reliable.
Yeah its pretty weird I created a website just to write this article just so I could make this post. I'm so frustrated with these outages :(
Re: A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
#8> Xfinity is the only gigabit provider in this area. No competition. No alternatives. I can’t leave. So they don’t have to care. many such cases...
"only gigabit provider". Like those grow on trees. Lots of people would love to have a fraction of that speed.
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#9I'd start my own ISP for the area
Re: A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
#10If OP is reading this, try downgrading to a Docsis 3.0 modem. Docsis 3.1 in Comcast’s deployed infrastructure has severe repeating outage issues when there’s a cracked line somewhere allowing RF leakage into it, that cause a partial 3.1 reset but have no effect on 3.0.